This European castle looks like it belongs in a fairy tale [Amazing Photo of the Day]

Stories of kings, knights, wizards, witches, trolls, golems, elves, goblins… are all lies. Castles, however, aren’t. Although they may not have housed Merlin or the Knights of the Round table, castles are part of history — European history, at least.

The following photograph is of Bojnice Castle located in Bojnice, Slovakia (Europe), and if I do say so myself, it looks like it has been plucked out of a fairy tale. Check it out for yourself:

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Patrick

@Col. Panek: My guess is you would like to use it as a walpaper? I don’t know about Win7 or higher, but in XP it’s child’s play to use most picture formats as a wallpaper – you can even play a complete slideshow as screensaver, but that’s another thing. If you set a restore point before activating your changes, you should not get into any trouble experimenting with screen settings. Put the picture in the (default) My Pictures folder first or in a folder of your own choice. Use Configuration>…>Desktop>Browse… and select the picture you like. Adjust other settings as you please. Confirm your new settings, close other open windows and running applications, and restart your machine. Your castle should pop up with your icons “on top” of it… [Sorry if some of the terminology is not 100% conform to the Englisch/USA version of XP, I’m using the Dutch/Netherlands version nowadays. But I have no doubt you understand what I mean] For other versions of Windows I can only refer to the Help pages on your system… Shouldn’t be too difficult to find what you’re searching for there. For other uses you might need a photo/picture editor. Lots of those around for free… e.g. on this site ;-) Good luck & enjoy, Pat.

Patrick

1. Sorry, I misspelled mythology” (wrote “myrhology” in stead) 2. >Who is that? Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) — known as H. P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction. Lovecraft’s guiding aesthetic and philosophical principle was what he termed “cosmicism” or “cosmic horror”, the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally inimical to the interests of humankind. As such, his stories express a profound indifference to human beliefs and affairs. Lovecraft is best known for his Cthulhu Mythos story cycle and the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. [this speedy answer cited from Wikipedia- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft Admittedly a writer who is not well known to the general public but is highly appeciated by those who love the genre. Even famous modern authors implicitly or explicitly refer to his work or that of his “followers”. [Way too much to go into further detail here. http://www.hplovecraft.com/ is one of the better resources – i.e. better than Wikipedia – but there are many more]

3. Why my comment? On impulse really (triggered by the dragon subscript). And as an invitation to those who are into photo editing. How to translate fiction into images that go deeper than the outer layer of the story itself. To go beyond mere photography (tout court) to express subconscious “emotions”…

But I have also always liked unmanipulated photographs. I learned “taking pictures” some 40 years ago, when current techniques existed only in the minds of a few pioneers. Photographing required a lot more than pointing at an object, pushing a button and have the machine do it for you – I’m grossly simplifying todays reality, I admit. So, to all who submit their work here, I mean no condescension; on the contrary, I’ve enjoyed and appreciate some quite beautiful photo’s. Nevertheless technology permits. So why not “create something, before unseen, from the visible reality”?.. Isn’t that one of art’s dimensions?

Patrick

Sure I can… but have no time to start editing pictures right now; sorry :-(

Anybody in for producing some homebrew original artwork based on (e.g.) H.P. LOVERCRAFT?? There’s a lot on the web – mostly old magazine or book covers and the like – but nothing that really catches the cosmic nature of his horror stories, or rather: his cosmic myrhology… Not for me anyway…